Colleen Long

January 23, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The lawsuit, which covers about one quarter of all the summonses filed from 2007 through at least 2015, was filed in 2010 by seven men and two women who said they were wrongly slapped with summonses, and it came amid a growing outcry over the NYPD's encounters with minorities.

By Colleen Long

6 minute read

December 23, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The Van Dyke Money Gang in New York made off with more than $1.5 million this year, but it wasn't in gunpoint robberies or drug running—it was a Western Union money order scheme.

By Colleen Long, The Associated Press

5 minute read

December 22, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The Van Dyke Money Gang in New York made off with more than $1.5 million this year, but it wasn't in gunpoint robberies or drug running—it was a Western Union money order scheme.

By Colleen Long, The Associated Press

5 minute read

May 08, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The Manhattan district attorney's search to solve what he described as "one of the city's most painful and unresolved cases" in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz ended Friday without a clear conclusion.

By Colleen Long

9 minute read

April 30, 2015 | New York Law Journal

For nine days, the 12 jurors asked to see dozens of exhibits, to have hours and hours of trial transcripts read to them and for access to a computer to organize their thoughts about the murder trial of a man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz nearly 36 years ago.

By Colleen Long and Tom Hays

3 minute read

December 04, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A white New York City police officer was cleared Wednesday in the alleged chokehold death of an unarmed black man stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, a case that sparked outrage and drew comparisons to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Mo.

By Tom Hays and Colleen Long

6 minute read

December 03, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A grand jury cleared a white New York City police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes — a case that sparked outrage and drew comparisons to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.

By Tom Hays and Colleen Long

4 minute read

November 17, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A French tourist was just trying to get a better vantage point to take sweeping city photos when he walked out onto the beams over traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, his lawyer said Monday.

By Colleen Long

3 minute read

November 03, 2014 | New York Law Journal

New York City has reached a settlement with the family of a mentally ill, homeless former U.S. Marine who died earlier this year in a 101-degree jail cell, the city comptroller said Friday.

By Colleen Long

3 minute read

September 10, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A low-level marijuana case against 1980s subway shooter Bernie Goetz has been dismissed after a judge concluded the clock ran out for trying it.

By Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz

3 minute read